with corrections, and return those to your team members for revision when they log in and update them on line.- To reduce paper use, some offices have print drivers installed that allow users to print a document from...

1) This can be a difficult topic. How do we put a cost on clean air and water. When someone is only interested in immediate profits then it usually takes the government issuing a new building code to force that person to do the right thing. In the US the government cannot require everyone to build to LEED so they tried to lead by example and many new government buildings are LEED certified. Both State and Federal. This has gained a lot of attention for LEED and probably encouraged others to follow with certifying their own buildings. Profit has motivated many business to get their buildings certified....

even if done under a separate contract. For example, if the work was an additional parking lot used by the LEED building, that could change your parking counts, open space %, and pervious areas and thus...

Demetra, I doubt you will receive a response to this question on this forum. People are more likely to share this kind of information as part of a quote process. Also, it will really depend a lot on project specifics. LEED ...

Implementing LEED requirements during construction is a balancing act: provide too little information, guidance, or follow-up and some things will fall between the cracks, but if you provide too much, the GC and subs can get overwhelmed, annoyed, tune out, or waste a lot of time. This problem is not unique to LEED- for large commercial projects the amount of information that goes into a set of construction documents, especially the specifications manual is mind boggling. And what is not said, but assumed to be "standard practice" could fill even more volumes. The quantity and location...

The LEED review process has moved away from auditing selected credits in greater detail as was practiced under NC 2.1. The LEED Review teams continue to ask for clarifications as part of the Design Phase Review and the Construction Phase Reviews, especially if the submitted documentation is unclear, ambiguous, or conflicts with documentation submitted for other credits. In some cases, if the project team's responses to those requests for clarification are not clear or don't supply the information requested, credits have been denied. It can save a lot of wasted time and anguish to respond...

Case 1 sounds like NC, Major renovation. Case 2 would likely be NC if the remaining 70% is to be occupied by the owner in the future, since they will control the build-out. If that remaining space is to leased to other tenants who will control their own tenant improvement build-out, then the project would be Core and Shell. Look at CS Appendix 3 in the BD&C Reference Guide for guidance on how to define the finished/ unfinished spaces. Since these answers depends a lot on percentages of project area that are effected by different scopes of work such as finishes, HVAC, and envelope, the most useful...

Depends on whaty you're looking for, but I think there's a lot of variation in ready-mix plants. Why do you ask? Looking for something particular? LEED ...

Thank you for the buildinggreen post. I work for a company that does a lot of new building Cx, so I would like bring up that that are some pretty major updates on the Cx requirements too, such as more systems required to be commissioned. I see that as a step forward to make LEED more stringent, resulting in better performing buildings. ...

No, I don't think you need to include this, just as you wouldn't include an outdoor parking lot. It's not occupied space. Application for LEED cetification ...